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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

~Charles De Montesquieu

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For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Accumulate Better Capital Choose Countries Doing Educate Free Free Men Had Invent Men More Occupations Opportunities Our Own Religions Select Than Themselves Things Ways Years

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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Aftermath Backward Case Certainly Countries Crop Drastically Failures Level Living Mass May Nations Our Partial People Prosperous Reduced Some Standard Subsistence Wars Where

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By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Comfortable Common Consent Countries European European Countries Maintenance Most Robust States Support Systems Taxation Them Welfare

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Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

~Charles Koch

Topics: Allow Allowing Almost Almost Everyone Citizens Consumers Countries Direct Elected Elected Officials Everyone Government Governments Hurts Losers Most Officials Our Pick Poorest Prosperous Remember Resources Those Use Well Winners Would

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The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Center Community Countries Different Different Countries Enduring Fiction Foreign Foreign Policy Histories Inherent Interests International International Community Lies Natural Necessities Obama Policy Thing Unfortunately

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When capital comes into our own countries, it ought to be for, you know, a longer-term investment. If it's extremely short, hot money, we ought to treat it in that way and have type of regulatory policy.

~Charles L. Evans

Topics: Capital Countries Extremely Hot Investment Know Money Ought Our Own Policy Regulatory Short Treat Type Way You

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If you look around the world and see all the different countries struggling to get away from very low inflation rates with economies not nearly as strong as ours, you want to make sure we avoid those circumstances.

~Charles L. Evans

Topics: Around Avoid Away Circumstances Countries Different Different Countries Economies Get Inflation Look Low Make Nearly Ours Rates See Strong Struggling Sure Those Very Want World You

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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

~Charlize Theron

Topics: Capital Capital Punishment Countries Crime Higher Makes Me Moral Morally Much Punishment Question Rate Sense States Struggle Than Which

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My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

~Cherie Blair

Topics: About Absolutely Best Communities Contributing Countries Day Doing Economy Enabling Every Every Day Families Foundation Them Women Work

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